Echinate

-d , ek′in-āt, -ed, adj. prickly like a hedgehog: set with prickles or bristles.— ns. Echī′nite , a fo il sea-urchin; Echī′noderm , one of the Echinoder′mat a , a cla of animals having the skin strengthened by calcareous plates, or covered with spikes.— adjs. Echinoder′matous , relating to the Echinoderm at a; Ech′inoid , like a sea-urchin.— n. one of the Echinoi′dea .— n. Echī′nus , a sea-urchin: ( arch it. ) the convex projecting moulding of eccentric curve in Greek examples, supporting the abacus of the Doric capital. [Gr. echinos , a hedgehog, and derma , skin.]